VCF Midwest Haul
Added 2024-09-07 22:53:35 +0000 UTCWhat I've picked up (so far) at VCF Midwest. Not sure how I'll get this in the suitcase. TSA might have questions.
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I remember those transitions being rough as well
clabretro
2024-12-13 00:49:50 +0000 UTCI was at school during the transition from NetWare to Microsoft Active Directory etc. It wasn't smooth at all and tbh I preferred the XP log on screen with "novell client for windows".
Joe Dry
2024-12-13 00:18:15 +0000 UTCWow is that beautiful, that Quantum Bigfoot brings back some memories from Druaga1. Can't wait to see the Netware stuff though
TrolleyMC
2024-09-21 18:53:03 +0000 UTCHa I have the same exact memory of that. Netware is definitely on the horizon, not sure when but it's absolutely something I'll be doing videos on.
clabretro
2024-09-09 22:11:23 +0000 UTCMan I hope this turns into a video on setting up a Netware environment. We had Netware 4 on our computers throughout high school and there's just something so neat about seeing a Novell logo on a Windows 95 logon screen!
Kyle Bee
2024-09-09 20:21:58 +0000 UTCI also hadn't seen one in decades. this one is theoretically tested and working so we'll see!
clabretro
2024-09-08 14:39:24 +0000 UTCYes, I was. Novell tried to be TCP/IP based for Netware 6, but it was to late by then. Novell has been bought and sold many times. NetIQ now owns it and offers eDirectory as a seperate product.
Glen Dady
2024-09-08 12:16:12 +0000 UTCWow. Quantum bigfoot. Haven't seen one of those in a while. Mine gave up the ghost and went to be ewaste.
Jon Creasey
2024-09-08 06:08:18 +0000 UTCah so you were there for the dominance and fall!
clabretro
2024-09-08 00:52:43 +0000 UTCI started my IT career as a CNA 3.51, then earned my CNE4, upgraded to CNE5, and by that point M$ had taken over and everyone was migrating to Active Directory.
Glen Dady
2024-09-08 00:48:16 +0000 UTCI've always been fascinated as well. I have a suspicion this box might just be training material disks, but for $5 I couldn't say no lol
clabretro
2024-09-08 00:00:35 +0000 UTCI had a Palm V back in the day, but never used it for anything serious. Also had an iPod Touch in college! loved it, and like you said with wi-fi everywhere it was great
clabretro
2024-09-07 23:59:29 +0000 UTCI have such a weird affinity and fascination with Novell NetWare. My first (limited) hands-on experience with LAN networking was in middle school, on generic 486s running instances of Windows 3.1 atop NetWare, all to use Word 6.0, play Snake in BASIC, and attempt to browse the web with Netscape 3.0 over a T-1 completely hamstrung by the even-then-outdated processors and inadequate RAM
Timothy Adams
2024-09-07 23:55:12 +0000 UTCIt took months of use before I was as fast typing on the on-screen keyboard as I was doing Graffiti on the Palm. That said, there were a few characters that I was never super accurate with in Graffiti, so over all my speed when factoring in accuracy was far better in the end.
Ross Nelson
2024-09-07 23:00:42 +0000 UTCI just dug out my USB Zip drive recently to try to read a disk (I had to buy software because macOS no longer reads old school HFS), and not super long ago ran across the Palm IIIx someone handed me. For the longest time, I had no interest in a Blackberry or iPhone, nor the iPod touch. I had everything set up on my PowerBook to sync my calendar and mail to that IIIx. At the time I didn't have a car and was taking a shuttle back and forth to campus for grad school stuff. As a TA, I would have students emailing me questions and I'd read and reply to those on the Palm as I walked around on campus. Great! If I were heading to office hours or a lab I taught, I'd be able to plug a cable in and sync and the email would send, but if I were headed to my own classes or back home, it could be a few hours before that email sent. And that's why I got an iPod touch. Circa 2007, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus had really good wifi coverage and I knew if I had something that spoke wifi I'd be able to get my students their answers much faster, justifying the toy I otherwise didn't see a need for. (That later grew into me buy a Palm Pre, some iPhones, some Galaxies....terrible idea. Gonna go move into the mountains and forget civilization exists.)
Ross Nelson
2024-09-07 22:59:41 +0000 UTC
